About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Friday, February 02, 2007

February 2......

February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 332 (333 in leap years) days remaining in the year on this date.

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

● 1843 - US & British settlers in Oregon Country choose governmental committee

● 1848 - The Mexican War was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty turned over portions of land to the U.S., including Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The U.S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and assumed responsibility of all claims against Mexico by American citizens. Texas had already entered the U.S. on December 29, 1845.

● 1848 - California Gold Rush: The first ship with Chinese emigrants seeking fortune in California's gold country arrive in San Francisco.

● 1852 - 1st British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)

● 1854 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the persecution of Armenians"

● 1863 - Samuel Langhorne Clemens used a pseudonym for the first time. He is better remembered by the pseudonym which is Mark Twain.

● 1864 - Cruise of CSS Florida

● 1869 - James Oliver invents the removable tempered steel plow blade

● 1870 - It is revealed that the famed Cardiff Giant was just carved gypsum and not the petrified remains of a human.

● 1874 - Grand County, Colorado is created when it is carved out of Summit County

● 1876 - The National League of Professional Baseball Clubs of Major League Baseball is formed.

● 1878 - Greece declares war on Turkey.

● 1879 - 540 Paiutes arrive at Yakama reservation after a forced march through winter snows from Southern Oregon.

● 1880 - The first electric streetlight is installed in Wabash, Indiana.

● 1880 - SS Strathleven arrives in London with 1st Australian frozen mutton

● 1881 - The first formal church youth organization was established in the Williston Congregational Church in Portland, Maine, by the Rev. Francis E. Clark, 29. Originally called "Christian Endeavor," it became the prototype of the modern denominational "youth fellowship."

● 1882 - James Joyce , the Irish author of "Ulysses" , was born.

● 1882 - The Knights of Columbus are formed in New Haven, Connecticut.

● 1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.

● 1894 - Birth of Novel Delgado, El Ferrol (Galice, Spain). Spanish anarchist, who emigrated to America at 16 and joined a Magoniste group in San Antonio, Texass. Denounced by the police, he went to Tampico, Mexico; imprisoned in 1916 for participating in a strike, Delgado went to New York when he was expelled from the country, but returned and was active with anarchist groups in Mexico City until his death, 16 November 1952.

● 1897 - The Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg was destroyed by fire. The new statehouse was dedicated nine years later on the same site.

● 1899 - The Australian Premiers' Conference held in Melbourne decides to locate Australia's capital (Canberra) between Sydney and Melbourne.

● 1901 - Congress establishes U.S. Army Dental Corps.

● 1901 - Female Army Nurse Corps established as a permanent organization

● 1905 - Birth of Ayn Rand, "ojectivist" libertarian writer. A self-stlyed defender of the individual against the state and collectivism, she enthusiastically cooperated with HUAC and other McCarthyist government persecutions. {She was born in Russia and had intense hate for anything to do with the Communist Party.}

● 1906 - Pope encyclical against separation of church & state

● 1907 - In a letter written to American statesman William Jennings Bryan, Christian Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy counseled: 'The most important thing is to know the will of God concerning one's life, i.e., to know what he wishes us to do and fulfill it.'

● 1931 - The first U.S. citizens are "repatriated" from the nation as Los Angeles Chicanos are deported to Mexico. As the Depression worsens, public officials across the Southwest decided it was cheaper to send legal residents back to Mexico than carry them on the welfare rolls. During the decade's first four years, well over 400,000 Mexican-Americans, many U.S. citizens living here as long as 40 years, are repatriated. Some families, as a result, are split because a father or mother -- or both -- are considered alien, but the U.S.-born children are allowed to stay.

● 1943 - World War II: The last German forces surrender to the Soviets after the Battle of Stalingrad.

● 1944 - German theologian and Nazi martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote in a letter from prison: 'There is a kind of weakness that Christianity does not hold with, but which people insist on claiming as Christian, and then sling mud at it.'

● 1944 - 4th US marine division conquerors Roi, Marshall Islands

● 1944 - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory

● 1945 - World War II: President Franklin D. Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill leave to meet with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference.

● 1945 - Escape attempt at Mauthausen concentration camp

● 1948 - President Truman urges congress to adopt a civil rights program

● 1951 - -35ºF (-37ºC), Greenburg, Indiana (state record until 1994)

● 1951 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

● 1951 - The first four of seven blacks convicted of raping a Martinsville, Virginia, white woman, Mrs. Ruby Stroud Floyd, died in the electric chair. The remaining three were electrocuted three days later. (By some odd anomaly, to date only one white has ever been executed for rape in Virginia's glorious history.)

● 1952 - A tropical storm forms north of Cuba and moves northeast making landfall in Florida. It is the earliest reported formation of a tropical storm on record in the Atlantic basin.

● 1955 - English apologist C.S. Lewis wrote in a letter: 'It is right...that we should be much concerned about the salvation of those we love. But we must be careful not to...demand that their salvation should conform to some ready-made pattern of our own.'

● 1971 - After a coup in Uganda, Idi Amin replaces President Milton Obote as leader.

● 1972 - Three days after 13 unarmed civil rights demonstrators were shot dead by British paratroopers in Londonderry {this day is known as "Bloody Sunday"}, Northern Ireland, outraged Irish citizens burn down the British embassy in Dublin, the capital of independent Ireland.

● 1973 - James R Schlesinger becomes director of the CIA (until July)

● 1973 - Richard Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA

● 1974 - Pope Paul VI encyclical "To Honor Mary"

● 1975 - Army offensive against rebels in Eritrea Ethiopia

● 1976 - Groundhog Day gale of 1976 hits the north-eastern United States and south-eastern Canada.

● 1997 - The government released statistics showing deaths from AIDS fell by almost half during the first half of 1997, a decrease attributed to increased use of powerful combinations of medicines.

● 1998 - U.S. President Clinton introduced the first balanced budget in 30 years.

● 1998 - Daniel Baldwin hospitalized in New York NY for cocaine overdose

● 1998 - A Cebu Pacific Air DC-9-32 crashes into a mountain near Cagayan de Oro, Philippines, killing 104.

● 1999 - 19 people were killed at Luanda international airport when a cargo plane crashed just after takeoff.

● 1999 - Hugo Chávez Frías took office. He had been elected president of Venezuela in December 1998.

● 2002 - Wedding of Crown Prince Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands to the Argentinean born Máxima Zorreguieta in Amsterdam.

● 2002 - Foundation of Eurodoc, the European Council for Doctoral Candidates and Junior Researchers, in Girona (Spain).

● 2004 - It was reported that a white powder had been found in an office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) later confirmed that the powder was the poison ricin.

● 2004 - Israel killed a leader of Islamic Jihad and three other militants in a Gaza raid.

● 2006 - House Republicans elected John Boehner of Ohio as their new majority leader to replace the indicted Tom DeLay.

● 2006 - An aging Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.

● 2007 - Van Halen announces they will reunite for a 2007 North American tour with their original lead singer, David Lee Roth, and Eddie's son, Wolfgang Van Halen as bassist instead of Michael Anthony.

● 2007 - Central Florida Tornado of February 2007: Tornadoes touch down in Florida in the mid-morning hours, killing at least 19 people.

● 2007 - Catania - after a Serie A game between Calcio Catania and U.S. Città di Palermo a fight broke out between the fans and the police,leaving more than 100 people injured and 1 police man dead called Filippo Raciti.

● Roman Catholic:● Candlemas● The Presentation of the Lord● The Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary● World Day for Consecrated Life (also February 3 in the United States).● St. Adalbald of Ostrevant● St. Adeloga● St. Apronian● St. Cornelius● St. Feock● St. Flosculus● St. Fortunatus● St. Joan de Lestonnac● St. Lawrence of Canterbury● Martyrs of Ebsdorf● St. Theodoric

On 8 March 2008 this post was edited to reflect the actual birth date of David Friedman to 12 Feb 1945 instead of 2 Feb 1945. This was based on this comment:David Friedman said...Actually, I was born on February 12th, not February 2nd. Apparently Wikipedia has misprints.

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